The Grandfather

Some people believe that "Morteza Momayez" is the Godfather of the Graphic in Iran. Well there have been people who studied and taught Graphic Design before him but no one can deny that he has been the most hard working Iranian Graphic Designer in the last decades. I had the Chance to be his student for 1 term in the faculty of fine Arts- University of Tehran where he was the manager of the Graphic Design group in visual Arts department. He taught us how to talk about a poster, how to criticize a graphic art work. He also taught us to be decisive and responsible and impartial for writing an Art critic. He died of Cancer (after many years of fighting it) in fall 2005 when i was just about to graduate. He was really kind i loved him but I can never forget the authority of his eyes. God bless him/

My Great Teacher

Speaking of my teachers, i can never FORGET THE 1ST person who taught me what the Graphic Design is.
THE 1ST person who told me what a poster is?
THE 1ST person who told me who the famous graphic designers are?
THE 1ST person ...
this first person is just one of the most famous iranian graphic designers round the wrold, Who won the 100,000,000 Euro Grand prize of the prince Klaus cultural center for his creativity and iranian identity base disigned posters; my great teacher Reza Abedini
:)
i ve really missed him.The last time he answered my e-mail he made me pretty pretty happy for several days. I wish he and his family all the best wishes in the world wherever they are :) and i m always proud that i was his student in the faculty of fine arts :)

My Teachers

Speaking of Mr.Meshki i decided to talk about my other teachers. I talked about the 5thcolor art group in my last posts. here is a photo of them. From the left:
1-Saed Meshki- I had my "Corporate Identity" class with him and I chosed Saadabad muesum for this class.i will upload my designs for this class soon.
his website: here
2-Alireza Mostafazedeh- package design class- i will soon upload those works too- he is the Art Director of Eshareh design Agency now.
3- Bijan Sayfouri- i did not have the chance to directly attend his classes but i learnt a lot from him - here's his website well i guess you can find more about him in google.
4-Majid Abbasi- I learnt alot from him too- He's very good in package Design and He is the Art Director of Did Graphic here's also his own website: here
I always follow what they do from this artistic group "the 5th color"'s website

Qajar photos

Hi again. I found a nice Iranian website which contains beautiful photos from Qajar period (iran in more than 200 years ago)
Verrrry nice photos of kings and princes and their foreign guests!
Here take a look : http://www.artofp.com
:) my younger sister Elaheh sent this website to me as she loves photography and she is a real good photographer :)
pay attention to the iranian tapestry's motives in the top of the photo.

1st of January

Today was a nice rainy day in Tehran. i drived to MFT institute to teach "photoshop and corel" to my students. that was a good class we talked about one of my professor's works named "Saed Meshki"
I told them that he has designed posters and logos with iranian identity bcz he has used ancient iranian motives in his works and special iranian calligraphy. His posters reminded me those nice 3 months that i worked as his assistant in his studio. He was really kind and i enjoyed working with him :)

2008/ / LAST

Hi, it s 31st of December 2008. it s couldy in Tehran and i m sitting in my room, having coffee. i have to finish my project as soon as posible but i dont like to do that now. it s one of those days that i remember that famous poem
گاهی دلم برای خودم تنگ می شود
... forget about it.
it s the last day of December. the last day of the year 2008. i received a very nice SMS today, it says:
2009 is at the door!

Remember;

life is short

break the rules

forgive quickly

kiss slowly

love truly

laugh uncontrolablly

and never regret anything that made you smile :)

so let's forget everything- HAPPY NEW YEAR :D

Now after Travel

well i m working on my dissertation now, it s defined in 4 chapters;
1- the difinition of poster
and the difiniation of carafts
2-Iranian Handicrafts status
The Iranian Handicraft posters during last decade
3-The symbols and graphical signs
Minimalism and post modernism
4-The visual elements of:
Iranian Pottery
and Iranian Qlims

i ve almost finished the first two chapters and i m supposed to finish the rest of it in 2 months :)
I m hardly working ... ;)